once its gone white and 'sticky" its a sure sign of an unwanted reaction, usually combustion gasses in the water from a blown head gasket.
a wet look is normal, but you cant always see a color from the coolant used. sometimes however its really obvious if blue or red coolant is used as the underside stains. i have been caught before with the overflow bottle filled with oily gunk from prior failures and
never cleaned out, and that can somethime slowly eeek back into the system and stain the cap.
have you checkes under the oil filler cap for any sign or condensation or 'whiteness". any "whiteness" there is definitely not normal and another indication of collant/gasket fault
Another posisble problem is diffenrent collant being mixed and reacting. the results are unpredicatable, but sometimes this ends up as a slippery mess under the cap and right thru the entire system
my suggestions are:......
remove and thoroughly clean the oil cap, over flow bottle, filler neck and rad cap in hot soapy water
top up and bleed the water sytem as per factory instructions. dont worry about any coolant/inhibitor
test drive till it gets real hot
let it cool and check both caps.. moisture or whiteness under oil cap are NOT normal.